BULLER.
Short and apt. Go on, Sir.
NORTH.
I call that an Astounding Discovery. Macduff speaks as if he knew that Scotland had been for ever so long desolated by the Tyrant—and yet till Rosse told him, never had he heard of the Murder of his own Wife! Here Shakspeare either forgot himself wholly, and the short time he had himself assigned—or, with his eyes open, forced in the long time upon the short—in wilful violation of possibility! All silent?
TALBOYS.
After supper—you shall be answered.
NORTH.
Not by any man now sitting here—or elsewhere.
TALBOYS.
That remains to be heard.